Lina Khan has enraged corporate America. She wielded one of the world’s most powerful government departments, the Federal Trade Commission, to challenge big corporate mergers and to issue new regulations intending to give workers and consumers more rights. Business leaders, consequently, wanted her fired. And with the incoming Trump administration, they’re going to get what they wanted. On Tuesday, Trump said he will also nominate Mark Meador, a former antitrust staffer for Utah Republican Sen.
Mainstream tech platforms have insisted they do not censor speech on the basis of political viewpoint, and some companies have gone out of their way to both accommodate and even promote right-wing views, but conservatives have long accused them of anti-conservative bias anyway, resulting in weaker platform enforcement against election lies and misinformation. Ferguson outlined the broad strokes of the link between antitrust and political speech last year, during his Senate confirmation hearing.